الناز آزادواری

Using a grounded theory approach, this qualitative research has aimed to find out the interpretations and rationales of the women in Mashhad regarding their experience of abortion. Based on a grounded theory approach, the research has tried to understand the psychological significance of the account of 28 women in Mashhad regarding the action of abortion and the causal, interventional, and contextual conditions surrounding their decision towards this action. To this end, using meaningful and snowball sampling methods, 28 women belonging to various social groups in terms of age, financial and social classes, etc. were chosen and deep and semi-structured interviews were carried out with them. Data analysis using open, axial, and selective coding showed that the central category abstracted from the action of abortion in the sample is “abortion: conflict of fear and choice”. Moreover, this abortion: conflict of fear and choice has happened in special causal conditions including expedient individualism, job-related issues, education and financial foresight, lack of sufficient awareness regarding prevention of pregnancy, inefficient conjugal interactions and divorce, and interventional conditions (importance of body and preservation of beauty, isolation and psychological issues, perfectionist idea of child-rearing) and contextual conditions (social station and modern ideas, stigma) have become a background for and facilitated the decision towards abortion and this conflict. The findings implied that, in special circumstances, the women in the society view abortion as a choice through which they can free themselves from structural and social limitations and get their lives back on track.

The phenomenon of suicide attempts is one of the most important socio-psychological harms growing worldwide, accounting for 1.4% of all deaths worldwide. The aim of this study is to discover family factors in suicide attempt which has been done by qualitative methodology and using the method of Grounded Theory. For this purpose, in-depth and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 women from Abdanan city whom suicide attempt and were selected by theoretical sampling method for more than one year. Nine main categories and one core category were extracted through the data coding system: strained family, family relationship inefficiency, Delinquent family, moral deviance of spouse, Divorced family, forced marriage, avoidance of unfavorable family atmosphere with marriage, marital disputes, experience of rejection and deliberate avoidance. Also, "Family Challenges - Significant Suicides" was selected as the core category, and finally a paradigm model derived from the data was set up. The findings indicated that family factors and family living conditions played an important role in the prevalence of suicide among women attempting suicide.